Montreal is not what it used to be. During a visit to Canada’s second most-populous city earlier this year, one thing stood out to me – the huge volume of pro-Palestinian posters, on walls and shop windows, denouncing Israel’s war against Hamas. One read: ‘Manif de solidarité envers le peuple Palestinien (demonstration of solidarity with the Palestinian people).’ Another declared ‘Free Gaza Now’, alongside a cartoon protester wearing a red and white keffiyeh.
